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"Tis (agon the bmmerahle. 

To find the truth exerse the irholr; 
The many channels that we find! 

'Tis from the dross ire draine ttie (fold 
hi ploy the reason (ff the mind 

And light the can/He of the soul. 



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nX PUBLIC INDIVIDUAL INTEREST. 

THE AUTHORS HISTORY. 



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Daring my short stay in this beautiful City, I will reverse and write 
my history over again; so as credit all cities and public interest and 
perpare it for print, though it was first written for this perpose at 
Colorado Springs. It will contain selections of prose and poetry such 
as public sentiments and interest would justify me to print, under 
the protection of law, order, and good citizens. 

The whole work, long expected amounting to some five hundred 
pages and over, has been impeded, and prevented by the great ad- 
versity, imperfect interest of two separate party having the advantage 
of my deafness to control things as they wished. And now in fear and 
trembling for the interest of those who wish to defend me in truth 
and right: I now submit the following. 

I do not believe in additional to ancient or modern litratureit 
it does not tend to decrease the present great amount of standard 
works by a more complete criticism-overhand ing of the whole; and 
as the papers have lately estimated it would take many thousand 
of years or lifetimes, to read the great bulk of reading matters; I do 
not think more then 20 years of an ordianry mans life should be 
taken in learning all there is to know. In this, under Supreme 
guidance we are more capable: a man will think of as much in a day 
as he can read in many of year. 

Therefore it seems vain and unprofitable for trie to add, or write 
of anything but the most complete, and that has never before been 
fanthomed or understood rightly; such as the soul and Eternal ex- 
istance must depend aund is qite universe to man; I believe in self- 
made men. on these we must depend sa to the magnet that points true 
when all is lost; who under power and genius deny themselves to 
unhappy fate, conquer all things, and work themselves into fame 
and Eminence, If 1 use whatever genius that is given me and the 
people credit me for,I like to use it in form that will give the greatest 
meaning in the fewest words, as in the intended poem to the Worlds 
Exposition, and which the imperfect intrest prevented me from 
completingand topreaentit with a poem to the State of Colorado 
and myself before the Exposition (dosed. 

Broad the way; and far. the worlds unknowing. 

Deep the sea: and wide the oceans roll. 
To higher aims—to stars! and firmaments showing. 
From dust to dust. Eternal claims the soul. 

The world has always seemed an open court to me, and 
many short poems of mine eagerly bought through Chicago ami St- 
LOuis. and other large cities westward; but few of them ever printed 
in the papers, It is necessary I should publish this speedly to prove 
my indent and gratify the interest of the people in a creditable 
ipieetiou; as my poems never fail to take effect if offred for sale 
so the following is my history in the shortest possible way it can he 



given, and as it is written ready for the book and press. 

My Father was born in Dublin Ireland. His mother was French. 
my Mother was born in England or Canada. Her father was German 
and her mother English. Therefore according to my parents test- 
money I am a direct decent of those four different Nations. English 
French. German. Irish. This is probly the reason the present age 
finds me so completely universal, to stur the four parts of the world 
so voilently. I was born in Canada. Town of Peel, in the year 1859-61 
Christined Methodest. the faith my parents then embraced. I come, 
to America when nine years of age, to the State of Wis, I will always 
support the Standard of American Liberty, as a sine road to a strong 
and unchangful constitution of liberty and right before God. a 
designed constitution that was born many, and many, of years 
before established or conceived in the minds of men, in the birth 
of Christ. God has given me his own decree with his own hand and 
clothed me with fire that what I write in the promised book fourth- 
coming, should tend to the complete eniightment of the world in 
Christ, I am the dec at of a large family, some of them have turned 
oat quite well, some ministers, one of whom died in Montreal 
Canada. My father was formly wealthy, but lost stead ly, and when 
five years of age scarlet fever made its aparance in our family from 
which [ lost one little brother, and another by name William, with 
myself lost our hearing. The organs of one of my ears is 

entirely distroyed and runs very offensive matter, the other was 
made slightly deaf and declined untill lean hear no sound but the 
loudest, the drum of the left ear is profrated lotting the sound and 
free air right on to the nerves closing them, this is the reason I can 
nether stand a loud sound or hear a common one: or distinguish 
sentence except by expression of the face and by motion of lips I was 
fourteen years of age when I last heard the birds sing and the har- 
monies of nature, and learned to lead and write much sooner, all the 
education I ever had in letters was before the age of sixteen years 
God has taught me about all there is to know since ihen. and at time 
of writing am extremely well versed in all spiritual Divinity, being 
a great reader and thinker, it seldom takes me longer then from one 
and seven to ten hours to read a volume of from two hundred and 
fifty to five hundred pages, as one who reads partly by sentence 
and before I ecom to completeness of knowlege that compeled me to 
understand I had grasped the ocean in one hand, and the 
land in the other; there seemed no bottom to the lightning like 
thought, that was spurned on by some invisable power over which 
I had no control: untill I had grasped existance in my hands. 
"Through I could reach from pole, to pole 

And grasp creation in my span. 
I must be measured by my soul, 

The minds the standard of the man. 7 ' 
There is no bound or limit to Infinite thought, unless fixed in 
somthmg on earth in doing good in hope of heaven. I become dumb 
partly because 1 could not control my voice properly, and partly 



from the comprehending of existence and beholding of Gods great 
mystryes all at once, when arriving at the stage of manhood when 
the spiritual and naturel law takes place for better or worse and we 
are tried by higher powers, and have always possessed very heavy 
power since conversion about the year isso. and was so extremly 
sensitive though my youththat I disowned my defective speaeh and 
hearing untill I was compelled to acknowlege, and saw that it was 
better for me to own my state such as it is, and not to notic by 
signs or expression, but to do all my conversation by writing as sure 
and not decitt'ul; my genius being far greater then my naturel ability 
in ether sensespeakiug or hearing, and put me in a far greater and 
higher position then I was able to defend without all m y naturel 
senses, and those who obtained the position of favorand trust, acted 
inevery way but the right wav. and in revenge sturred up ahell upon 
earth; and made m i an inno : mt victim of every device im igable: in 
everyway it could be done without detection a mortal shame. 

Sweet are manners and grace that lights the way, 

Of love and truth the brightness of the day. 

Whensummum jus, summa injuria* we greet. 

M'nl'st blinding glares w i m darkest torres meet. 
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When stars shall ease to shine as diamonds bright, 

The earth, sun. and mom. may fade away. 

What now we gain in life, as holy light! 

Almightj God. shall time Eternal day. 
My writings the must of them-are very solid, but the actions of 
the adverse in love and marrage affairs put me under mental strains 
that the most powerful genius Irveing could not have withstood so 
help me God. I will still vanquish and conquer, and dwell with thee 
in Eternityl when scarce thin. Mm years of age I was much inclined 
towards God, with a desire to perform his will, and found no stories 
soromance, thrilling, and interesting, as the bible, and when very 
young read it continually, and preferd it to any other mansucript 
From the »ge of fifteen up to ninteen my life was spent in innocent 
misguidence when light visits of the spirit of God come upon me 
and I began a genius reform: and a tew years latera brother of mine 
a constant companion whom I loved dearly died, a shock that bewil 
ded and completely overthrew me.i now become a devoted christian 
reformer, and -was prostrated many, and many of times by powei 
and extremity of the most high, and underwent manj extrordianl] 
revelations, and sin having revived unto death my feet slippinga tew 
times I become bound in bonds of steel, t 

* The rigor of the law is the bight of oppressions. 

' •• Hound in bounds ol tfellow. expresses this inthelast verse of his "Warding 

where he sayi", — Ther is a poor blind Samson hi the land 
Sliorn of his strength, bound in bounds 

of steel, 
Who may, in some grini revel rise his hand 
And shake the pillars of the common weeL" 

Till the vest temple. of our Iberties 
A shapless mass of wreck and rubbish lies. 
Sans, ,n is the law whos strength Christ has shorn, and as many as are under the law ar 
Wind, 



I run of in the wilderness knowing no rest night or day, but walking 
alone with God. During this lime I formed may brillant conseptions 
of poetry, one of which is as following; but wrote many years later 
the demands and percantion of others wourld never let me rest to com 
piece many brillant effusions that had certianly made me Immortal 
CREATION OF MAN. AtfD WOMAN. 

Long. Long, ago! 

When the sky was deep and blue, 

When Etenal ages run: 

Before the created knew. 

When God; contempelated creating man. 

He brought him fourth from the dust and sod. 

For the begening and the end, 

In the image of God. 

And as the spirit and the wind listeth; Adam come and grew. 

As in a dream the Immortal existeth 

All things he knew. Alone! Alone! with God! 

O What mystrys did the mind conceive; 

As he beheld the world as far as he could see. 

He called it a gardeu, and all things he knew; 

He knew them, and called them by there names. 

And God loved Adam as his own image, 

And Adam lived in wonder and loved God 

In the morning of the world. 
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And was there something wanting for Adam. 

As in a dream, he did not know. 

Was it sombody to share the glory? 

Of the beautiful garden where the Immortal grew! 

He wondered every wheres, but could not be found. 

The object of his desire where to be. 

He sang his songs in prayer, but not a sound 

Untill God answerd I will answer thee. 

"It is not good for man to be alone." 
And the stars! shone brightly, as Adam fell — 

within a dream asleep! 
Whatever magicial opereations there was, 

'tis God alone that knowes. 
. How long he slept; did angels watch and weep? 

Hark! a sound in the wind that blows. 
And Adam awake, and did perceive, 
B'held a form and it was Eave! 
And Adam knew and loved her. 
Bow'd to the morning star. 

"Then sang the birds in paradise" 
As he loved her, sohemadeher, 
Bright and far as angels are. 



But the world has lowly laid her, 
From the glory of the stars. 

Nothing could be more original or near the divine cou- 

eption, indeed I seemed to be the liveing actor, and under 

went almost the same spiritual operation; I experienced the 

same sublime holiness and solitude; that we feel when we 

mage or read of our Immortal Forefather. About this time 

when in the wilderness, both Father and Son where revaled 

to me in a spiritual vision about the same hour "As many as 

keep my sayings we will love him and manifest ourselves to 

him the heaven was open Iheard voices, songs, and heavenly 

music, wherein I transgressed .the sayings of St. Paul, where 

it says; "Say not in thy heart who shall ascend heaven, that 

is to bring Christ down from above; or who shall descend in 

to the deep, that is to bring up Christ again from the dead' 

this visoin manifested Christ again upon earth, as we have 

often read or seen him in the garden or wilderness, in the 

posture of prayer, on the right hand of God. in decent from 

above. I began to break out the exclamation "O! how I love 

thee" the answer come in the deepest sorrow, "If you loved 

meyou would keep my sayings" the visoin of the Father was 

up heavenwards sorrounded by a halo, at the top of a great 

beam, his hand extended showing me the righteousness and 

illumation of his Son. and a voice come plainlv, "An open door 

is before thee that no man can shut" the same sentence 

tli it wt have hear other great reformers declare, since then 

nothing could move me from the truth and word of God. and 

have fought with the greatest adverse powers that man can 

be tempered with, conquered in the truth and word of Gcd 

m correct divination. Being a terrible warrion in Christ, the 

ladies whom I love— If any single one of them, act the 

least improper from what I should expect as the most gentle 

of mortals I will forever avoid the parties if possible; if there 

actions do not prove justifiable, as I consider it an inexcusible 
insult for anyone to believe anything improper of me under 
the sircumstances: as those who experence mv character wiill 
find me the most honost, truthful, and gentle of mortosa 
though tortured by sensitiveness I indure all things as the 

unlight quietlv, modestly, and plasently. 



Sweet in lovespring- hearts are glowing; 
Some with dying eyes are closing. 
Some misguided hearts are breaking, 
Some in sleep that knows no waking. 
Some in anguish, some in bitter curse 
As the world whirleth onwards within its course. 
All who have the spirit of the Father and are schooled 
by the law to real acceptance, is a terrible rigor; but in the 
schooling from it to the second decree in Christ. As in the 
following beautiful form : is all the elements of religon. 

To trust in him who's kingdom above, 

The God-send for all while here below; 

Who performed a righteousness of independent love. 

In this, the rivers of life to flow:- 

And changed as becomes everything. 

Our trials so hard so more will meet. 

In the beauties of earth as minnesting! 

The hope, and expectations sweet. 

To be "born again 1 ' and created anew 

This is, designed for me and you. 

So great a glory transformed this, 
For worlds unknowing transet bles'L 
Where winning love turns our woe aside, 
For this our Lord dear Saviour Jesus died. 

While this will be true salvation to some, it will be par- 
dition to J others; it depends on how they are schooled: and 
know from the evidence of all things. 

BRIGHT STAR OF THE MORNING. 

To love you bright Ideal, the light ot the rarest! 

O! let then our love be that of the purest. 

To love, and to cherish, the rights of adoring. 

O live but for me "Bright star of the morning!" 

In the brow the crescents where thy garments are traling, 

In the o-ray dawn of light, in etherial love. 



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Thou turneth to the doors where my heart lies ailing. 

And Gabriel sounds to the rights of my moves. 

As oft have I watched through the long hours of twa- 

[light. 

Thy brightness and glory, as thy sisters were straying. 

A twinkling! twinkling! till the br^.td hours of daylight. 

As if angels and babies about the were playing! 

And long, since the time; and the age of thy waking. 

When life was abonding lamentable woe! 

Thou shone fourth thy rays in the hearts of the brak- 
ing- 

And glory was sounded to thy celestrial glow. 

The home the soul, the home of Immortals. 
The Far! Far away, beyond the stars overhead. 
Thou glistens, and glows, near the sunlight and portals. 
Aud the heavens declares it is thee I should wed. 

To love you sweet FN, the light of the rarest! 
O, let then our love be that of the purest. 
To love, and to cherish, the rights of adoring, 
O! live but for me bright star of the morning"! 

LISTEN LOVE. 



Tell me how that 1 can please you 

Listen love thy voice impart. 
How to care, how to ease you. 
All my soul, all my heart. 

As. the silent river flowing; 
Sunlight glistening, starlight gleams! 
So there is a love unknowing; 
Deep within Immornal dreams. 

In thy beauty, and agreement. 

In the glory grace divine! 
Suf-fer me. those words indearment. 
Tell me will you not be mine? 

In this life as I please you, 
Of my duty, and my part. 



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How to care, how to ease you 
All 1113 soul all my heart. 
The following beautiful poem was writing by meat the re- 
quest of the wife of the gentleman; who passed through 
the late war: and died among the Rocky Mountains. 

LIEUTENANT. W. B. McCelellan. 



Man are born to rise or fall 
What honor markes there ceer, 
And God Almight ruieth all 

From birth to casket bier. 
And when the storm of life has pas'd 

We hope, but no one knows. 
What has become of forms we pres'd 

Cold lies, benath the snow. 

The soul as o ire as heavens sky 

We count Immortal day. 
But then the form as clouds feet by 

As quickly sure decay. 

And all thats dear to tie of life, 
To childhood home so sweet. 
So very dear thy husband-wife 
( )! never more to meet. 

We morn ,lo heaven lift our eyes 

O God thy mision fills. 
The calling home from earth to sky 

We know it is thy will. 



And over the rocky m uintiain main. 
His footsteps traced Creed* 
There died,— his dear young wife in wan 
Now mornsi n widow weeds. 
"And O she said I loved hin> so 
Most gallent, brave, and true. 
But now of him no more will know 
HTs gone to gates of blue." 

He pased the din, the terrible war 

All through the North and South; 
And now he joins his count}' stars. 
For all of heros worth. 

A'way beyond the western plain! 

The far off faronteer. 
And to the stormy meridian 
When night was drawing near. 

And now his form we see no more 

On mount, or western hills. 
He is gone to walk the golden shore 
The everlasting wills. 



* Small town among the rocky mountains. 

I would like the peple t > understand that this is intirely my own work wherein the people 
c in judge me, and where I can glory, and not in anothers. The Manager and many other 
other gentleman offered to do my proofreading; but this I disregarded as 1 am surelcan do my 
own work perfectly if I have the necessary leasure and means at desposal: besides 1 do not 
wish the people Jo acknowlege m: for aything not my own exclusively. 

It seemes that some parties are not co ttent to swindle me our of all properity, by taking the 
advantage of my deafnes, but every little fault is made a continual dispuf; that the value or 
whatever is beautiful and good may be renderd to themselves; the people think there is some- 
thing wrong, they are quite right but if they will only believe me where myself is concerned 
theywill never be decived by proffessional hood winkers. 

1 Am the poet of the "Bright nnd morning star" of State and National, of Beauty, Love, 
and Friendship. As well as a City Poet. And everthing will be proven as 1 say as soon as 
1 am able to publish my book: and being sorroun led as I state in my history it takes all 1 can 
do to defend myself. 

■ — - 1 - I... 1 a - !•'. . W. Cavanagh. Deaf Poet. 



Cot". RIGHTED. UnDEK The TlTLE Of THE 

Mute Immortal Strains. 



DEAF POET. 



All things in h'jr so strict, so; dear 
I do deny I cannot hrar; 
The rushing /rinds the sounds of spring 
Tli< babbling brooks, the birds that sing: 
Hi/' Ustemng leaves, the mountain breezes, 
The sounding noise of winter freezes, 
The nut ring storms and dashing wuiers, 
And most of all; mrpC S fairest daughters. 
And yet, in bjB so sensitive of s/nrit! 
[/ seems as though that I run hear it. 

E. IT. Cavanqffk; IK /'. 



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